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Articles by Yuki Tanaka

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Yuki Tanaka is an historian and political critic, and an editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal. He is the author of Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Second edition) and Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. His publications include Yuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack and Gerry Simpson, eds., Beyond Victor’s Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited, and Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn Young, eds., Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History. He has published many books and articles in Japanese including the book Kenshō Sengo Minshu-shugi: Naze Watashi-tachi wa Sensō Sekinin Mondai o Kaiketsu dekinai no ka (Examination of Japan’s Post-War Democracy: Why can’t we solve the problem of war responsibility?).

War, Rape and Patriarchy: The Japanese experience

“Yamazaki, Shoot Emperor Hirohito!” Okuzaki Kenzo’s Legal Action to Abolish Chapter One (The Emperor) of Japan’s Constitution

In Memory of Jan Ruff-O’Herne ジャン・ラフ・オハーンさん追悼文

An Open Letter to Emperor Akihito: For establishing a genuine democracy in Japan

Reflections on the Commemoration of the Kamikaze Pilots in Pearl Harbor and Chiran

A Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

A Diplomat's Farewell: An Exchange on US-Japan Relations

Reflections 68 Years On: How to Address an Irresponsible State 8

Notes on Nuclear Weapons: Toward Abolition or Armageddon?

Notes on Nuclear Weapons: Toward Abolition or Armageddon?

Photographer Fukushima Kikujiro - Confronting Images of Atomic Bomb Survivors−−

Peter J. Kuznick and Yuki Tanaka

Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power”•Japanese translation available

The Atomic Bomb and “Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy”

Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Pacific War: The murder of Australians, the massacre of lepers and the ethnocide of Nauruans−−

War and Peace in the Art of Tezuka Osamu: The humanism of his epic manga−−

Howard Zinn and Yuki Tanaka

Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence——

Tsukishita Miki and Yuki Tanaka

A Letter to the Citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki From a Hibakusha residing in Okinawa

Robert Wampler and Yuki Tanaka

Nuclear Noh Drama: Tokyo, Washington and the Missing Nuclear Agreements

Richard Falk and Yuki Tanaka

The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements

The Songs of Nippon, the Yamato Museum and the Inculcation of Japanese Nationalism

Oda Makoto, Beheiren and 14 August 1945: Humanitarian Wrath against Indiscriminate Bombing

Crime and Responsibility: War, the state, and Japanese society

Last Words of the Tiger of Malaya, General Yamashita Tomoyuki

The Hibakusha Voice and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Japan's Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror

Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster?

Firebombing and Atom Bombing: an historical perspective on indiscriminate bombing

Indiscriminate Bombing and the Enola Gay Legacy